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"XBa feb '2H o ? ly tood full iu liiy path, und caught mo by the arm. ?Hallo!" said he, 'You'ro j??at in tune; ^ujare wanted p*&0&*. r,mda to-l,i?ht!" w_ i ^-?rtjrtnj-the voice of a ruffian, ..iuhii.' *i tifood.quite 'sttil. ;ynl .strove to show l?iti by my muuner th.it I wus ublb to protect myself. "What the deuce am I wanted at the cross roads fori"' said I, ''Unless I choose, it will he a very hard matter to get me there V ? ^- 'Hut instead of producing a pistol ami do ?nandiug my monuy or my life, the man an swered iu an altered tone. "Beg pardon, I made a mistake. I thought it was my brother,- and I wanted to frighten htm. Bad night sir," "Very," said I. "You don't know the time, sir?" he asked. "It was seven when I left the train at I?-I said, Thank yo, sir," said the man. "Good night/' '?'Good uight," said I. If his object had been robbery, probably he had decided from my rough appearance that 1 was too poor a uiau to be worth tho trouble. But after all, I thought probably he spoke the truth. A man may have such a voice without being a highway man, no doubt. So I went homeward, and soon found myself under shelt er, and partaking of a warm aud savory sup per. My mother was there and my brother Ben. lieu was a great strapping fellow, who could heat any other boy of his age for miles around if it camo to wrestliug or boxing, aud as good humored a boy as'ever lived ; a boy always to .mother und I, though he had exercised his Tight to vote already iu one - Presidential elec tion. When supper was over, and we had chatted for an hour, we went up stairs togcthor. "The moment Ben's head touched the pillow, he always went to sleep. That night, I fol lowed his example. But I did not sleep Jong without a dream?a dream in which I Id It rough grip upon my arm, and was arouse) A cry in my cars. ?" Wako up! You are wanted at the ffoads." It was so real, so j ulpable, that win .-started broad awake, I actually believed some one wus in the room ; the man who] lendcd robbery or violence. But when iirisen, and lit my lamp, the room was oil except my.sclf and Ben, who lay snorinj his pillow. I went to tho door ; it was locked. I to tho window, thu crush of raiu ag. iuJ pains was all I heard. I even went uoroj passage to my mothor's room. She was aj there hud been no unusual sound, sin Mure. Only a dream born of my meeting the ?dr?nge man iu tho road, I felt, hud awakened juo. 1 went to bed and tell asleep again. Again I was awakened by tho same words, it his time shrieked in my car by an unearthly woioe. "Wake up, wake up. You arc wanted at the cross roada." , I was on my lcct ouuc nuuo, and caught Bcu's hand as ho camo over towards my bed. "Whatails you?" he cried. "Nothing," said I. "Did you hear a voice ?" "Yours," said Ben, "yelling woke mo up; you fairly frighteuud me." "Ben," said I, "wait till I light a lamp ; I heard another voice. Must be some one in the house or outside." So I again lit a lamp, but wo searched in vain. "Nightmare," said B., v hen I told him my story. "Ben," said I, "what is there at tho cross roads. "A house," said B. He had lived in the neighborhood a long while, and 1 not lonj "Uno little house, beside two oak trees and a fence. An old man lives there?a rich man, and a bit of a miser, they say. LI is grand daughter keeps house for him." "Ben, that fellow may have meant harm to them. 1 may be wanted at the cross roads "Brother," said Ben, "go to sleep. You had a nightmare," aud Ben plunged in be tween the blankets, aud was snoring again. I also, iu ten minutes, slept as soundly us before, but the awakening soon came again. I opened my eyes, to seo a girl standing at the ibut of my bed. A girl iu whites robes, with g?lden hair all about her shoulders, who wrung her hands and cried : "Oh, wake up, you aro wanted at the cross roads." This time I starte I out of bed, bathed in a cold pcrsporutiou. I trembled like a leaf. 1 had no doubt that I had received supernatural warning. "Ben," I cried, l*Bcn, for the third time I have been told that 1 am wanted at the cross roads, and I am going." Aud I began to dress myself as speedily as possible, listening the while to the storm rag ing wilder aud wilder than at any other period ?inte its commcuccmcnt. Ben remonstrated with mo in vain. At last he also began to huddle on his clothes. "If you have gone mad, I must go with you and take cur?? of you," he said. ? Vliut ciuuey another man, goiug out ina ^bnufoilo ftfis it) Ttte 'oroaiT rbtKls,' bqeauso a nightmare caused him to do so, and what you think of him ?" I saitTiiothiug. All I could have answered would have been "I am compelled to go ; 1 must go. I dare not refuse, whatever may be thought of mo ?" In ten minutes we were splashing through the mud and rain along the road. It was perfectly dark; now and thcu a blazing red tstar iu the distance told us that a lam)) was beaming through the raiu in some cottage window, but otherwise we would not have been conscious of .our proximity to any habita tion whatever. At last, nenriug the spot whoro tho road from S-crosses tho road to I*-,wo wero indeed iu as solitary a place as can be imagined. The house, which abutted on tho very angle of tho roads', called in familiar parlance the Cross liorid, was tho only one for some dis tance in either direction, aud certainly on such y night we were notlikcly to meet many travelers. All was quiet ns the grave. We stood quite still. In a moment, B. broke out iu one of his wildest laughs. "Well," he said, "how now?"?Will you go home now and have another nightmare?" But hardly had the words escaped his lips, when a shriek broke on the uir aud a woman's voice, plainly coming from tho interior of the cottage, cried: '-Help! help! help!" "Ben," said I, "we are wanted at the cross roads," and then understanding each other, without more words we made our wny to the window, through which a light shone. A mus lin curtain draped the panes, but through it we saw an awful sight. An old man lay on the floor, and over him bent a ruihian, clutching his throat, and hold nan fore as _ t we were wanted at the cross roads." The old man was not a miser, but hu had saved some few thousand dollars lor his old age, aud living more plainly then ho need have done, had given rise to the rumor, and so brought the burglars to the cross roads iu the hope of booty. The girl, a beautiful creature of seventeen, 1 was hia grand-daughter, uud as no story is neCeptiblc to the lady reader without a flavor of romance, I will tell them, that she becamo iu after, years, not my wife, but the wife of my darling brother Ben. Three Brave Men. Pretty Barbara EerroB would not marry.. IIcr mother was iu consternation. '?Why are you so stubborn, Barbara?" she asked, "you havo plenty of lovers, I know." "Hut they do not suit mo," said Barbara, cooly. tying back her curls beforo the mirror. "Why not?" "I want, when I marry, a man who is brave, equal to any emergency. If I give up my liberty, I want to be taken cure of." "Silly child! what is the matter with big Barney, the blacksmith ? "He is big, but I never learned that he was brave." "And you never heard that he was not. What is the matter with Earnest, the gun smith ?" -He's as placid as goat's milk." "That is no sign that he is a coward. There is little Fritz, the tanner : he is quarrelsome enough for you, surely? '. "He is no bigger than u bantam cock. It is little he could do if the house was set upon by robbers." "It's not always strength that wins a fight my girl. It takes brains as well as brawn.? Come, now, Harbara, give these young fellows a fair trial." Barbara turned her face before the mirror, letting down one raven tress and looping up another. "I will, mother," said she at last. That evening, Earnest, tho gunsmith knock ed early at the'door. "You scut for me Barbara?" he said going to the girl, who stood upen tho hearth, coquet-, tishly warming one pretty foot and then the other. "Yes, Earnest," she replied. "I've been thinking of what you said the other jaight , ^lcu^oulfcT5^ ' j ? "Well Barbara." Earnest spoke quietly, but his dark blue eyes flashed, and he looked at her intently. "I want to test you." "How ?" '?I want to see if you dare do a very disa greeable thing." "What is it!" "There is an old coffin up stairs. It smells of mold. They say Redmond, the murderer, was buried iu it; but the devil catno for his body and left the eoflin empty at the cud of a week; aud it was finally taken from tho tomb. It is up stairs itr* the room \ny grandsirc' died iilj and they sny grandsirc does not rest c;t?y iu his grove for some reason, though that J know nothing about. Hare you make thai eolfiu your bed to-night?" Earnest laughed. "Is that all ? 1 will that, and sleep sound ly. Why, pretty one, did you think I bad weak nerves?" "Your nerves will have good proof if you undertake it. Remember, no one sleeps in that wing of the house." "I shall sleep the souuder. I will send a lad to-showyou the chamber. If you&tay un til morning," said imperious Miss Barbara, with a nod of her pretty head, "I will marry you." "You vow it?" Earnest turned straightway und followed the lad in waiting through dim rooms and passages, up cchoingstairs, along narrow, damp ways, where rats scatter before them, to a low chamber. The boy looked pale und scared, and evidently wanted to hurry away; but Earliest made him wait until be took a survey of the mom by the aid of his lamp. It was very large and full of recesses, with high windows in them, which were barred across. He remembered that, old (Jraudsire Ferres had been insane for several years before his death, so that this precaution bad beed necessary for the safety ol himself und others. In the cen tre of the room St odd a eoflin; beside it was placed a chair. The room was otherwise per fectly empty. Earnest stretched himself in the eoflin. "Be kind enough to tell Miss Barbara that it's a very good fit." be said. ' The boy went put and shut the door, leav ing tho young gunsmith alone iu the dark. Meanwhile, Harbara was talking with tho big blacksmith in the keeping-room. '?Barney," said she, pulling hor hands away from his grasp when ho would havu kissed her, "I've a test to put to you before I give you any answer. There is a corpse lying iu tho untonautcd wing of the house. If you dare sit with it there all night, aud let nothing drive you from your post, you will not ask mo to inurry you again iu vain." "You will give me n light and a bottle of wine, and a book to road ".Nothing I" 1 "AreUhcse all the conditions you cnu oiler mo, Barbara?" '-\ "All. - And if you. get frightcued, you need never Jook me iu tho iaoo ngaiin" i "FlLtuke th'cui, thou;'!< < ',i I ? j c So Barney was conducted to Ii'ih post by the lad* who had been- instructed in I tho secret, and whoso ^-involuntary -etiire at Earnest's: placid faod as it lay iu the coffin was. intorprCr tod b? Baruoy to bo natural awe of a corpse, lie took his seat, and the boy left him. tdonu with tho. darkness, the.rats and the coffin. SOoibnftcr, young Fritz, the tanner, arrived, flattered and hopeful, from tho fact that Bur bara-had s-2ut for him. "Have you changed your mind, Barbara ?" he uskod. "No; and I shall not until I know that you can'O?^areally bravo thing.'' ? : "What shall it bo? I swear to satify you; Bnvb??ra."'"> ;:ltuvo' a>proposal to maks , you. My plan requires skill as well ns courugo." ''lill'mo i';', "Welk; in this house is a man watching by a corajsc..-- lie has sworn not to leave his post until^iorning. If you can make him do it, I shall d)0 satisfied that you arc as smart und as bravo as.I require a husband to be. 4,\ihyi!npthing is so oasy!" exclaimed Fritz, | '?I cjfn seave him away. Furnish me with a sheet* shoaUaCcthe room, aud go to your rest , Burbura. You shall find me at the post iu the morniij^.". Barbara did as required, aud saw the tanner step xbiithiy away to his ta.sk. It was then nearlv tW^ve o'clock, and she sought her own chamber, quickly. ?Barueyr was sitting at his vigil, and, so far, all Ii ill -been well. The night seemed very long,' for ho had no means of counting the time. At times a thrill went through him, for it teemed as if he could hear low, suppress ed bJcnthing riot far away; but he persuaded himac If that it was tho wind, blowing through j the ^j-evices ^f the old houso. Still, it was I voryfkniely, and not at all cheerful. . T^Srfaco in the 'coffin gleamed, whjter j ijfcbfflMp^^itirt 'i^-?^ Xllfl ratc-r.iii,vik','il 11s it a iiuninc were upon them and they smelted dead flesh, 1 -'The thought made him shudder. He got up and walked about, hut something made a flight uoibu, as if Hom.cbudy y as be hind him, aud he put his chair with its back against the wall, and sat down again. Ilo had been hard at work all day. and at last, in spite of everything, he grew sleepy. Finalby he nodded and snored. Suddonl}- it seemed as if Somebody had touched him. lie awoke with a start, and saw nobody near, though in the ocntrofof the room stood a white figuro. bau ? UTE >? ' ^"Cursc you, get out of this !" he excluimrrd iu a fright, using tho fii>t word- that ta'.^c to lit? longuo. j .' "" The liguro held up its right arm and slowly approached him. He started to his'feet.. The spectre came nearer, nearer, pressing him intu the corner. "The d?1 take you'.i'! cried Barney, in his extremity. Involuntarily be stepped back; still the figuro advanced, coming nearer and nearer, and extending both arms, as if to take hiin ill a ghastly embrace. The hnic started up on Barney's head; he grow desperate, and just ns the gleaming arms would have touched him. he fell upon the ghost like a whirlwind, tearing off the sheet, thumping, pounding beating and kicking, more and more enraged at the - resi titnee he met, which told him the truth. As the roadt-r knows, ? he was big, aud Fritz was little; and while he was pumineling the little tanner unmercifully, and Fritz was trying in vain to get a lunge at Barney 's stomach, to take the wind out of him, both plunging and kicking like horses, they were petrified by hearing a voice cry : ??Take one of your size, Hi^, Haruey !" Looking around they saw the corpse sitting up in his coffin. This was too much. They released each other and Sprang for the door. They never knew how they got out; but they ran home in hot haste, panting like stags. It was Barbara herself who came nnd opened the door upon Earnest the next morning. '?It's very early; one more little nap," said he turning over iu the coffin, So she married him ; and though she sent Fritz ami Harne)' invitations to the wedding, they did not appear. If they discovered tho trick, they kept the knowledge to themselves, aud never willingly faced Harbnrn's laughing eyes again. A box containing ?100,001), which hud been taken from the vaults of tho'Safe Peposit Company was stolen from a real estate agent's offico iu New York on Wednesday. The thief was pursued; but not caught. A Hosten house lately received a dispatch from Calcutta iu less than twenty-four hours. Three horse thieves, two white and one black*! wer? latelv hung In flriiryfion county, Tc.vts. " ' V ?.."?' V A K I 0 U S. General Lee as College President. yt* liagby writes as follows to a paper in Lexington, VV, in regard,to<3cperal Lee: Here It will be i?pl?oo to Tolato that on my return1 from ? Lexington, a gentlcnian in the coach expressed tho fear that Getioral Lee's kindness of heart, und his desire to enlarge the't'ollegd might, perhaps, muko him too len ient, and possibly, lower the scholastic stand ard. To quiet his fears; I told him what had been told me a few days before by u olorgyman residing iu Lexington. "General Loo's office," said he, "i? no sin ecure.1 His work taxes to the utmost his pow erful constitution. He registers iu his mind not only the" fade but the name of each of the four hundred and ten students. Nor \B that all. He can tell you the standiug of each student in the several hrauqhcs which ho stu dies, imd any neglect of duty is promptly pun ished." /'Punished I" I exclaimed. "Ves," said he, "iu General Lee's own way.' "llow is that V I iuquirod.? l/Wollj not long sinco a young friend i of | mine, who is iu the college, confessed to me that he had bucu, as ho expressed it, "hauled up"?that is, he had received a message to the effect that the President desired to sec him in his office. - '?' ' "Did General Lcc lecture you?" "No, indeed." "Did'h? scold you ?" v * ; "Scold ! I only wish Tic had. Tic talked to mc so kindly that he nearly broke my heart, - and yo'fi don't catch mc in there again, I tell yon;" That is "General Lee's way." not like, Stonewall Jackson's, but quite as effectual in college as was Jackson's iu the army. If wo add to this personal supervision of each in dividual student, the labor of correspondence (a great deal of which cannot bo taken off hi? [ hands) and"'other duties, we may undorstaud rounds of the papers a few months ago, of the Gcucral's failiug health, should have eredcuce. I'Hc has improved very'much of late, but doos hot present that robust appearaucc to which our eyes were neenstomcd'during the war.' ? IIKAi/rii or Fakmkks.?Thcxo are seven reasons why farmers are healthier than ?..pro fessional nun, .viz: 1. They work more and develope all tlic ] leading umvclcs of the body I j j They take their, qxcrcisc, iu the, open air, [ and bic:ithte a greater, ?mn??ut| of oxygen. 3. Their llajd and drinks arc eoniuiouly less ;;:.Ull{cr;ded, :;ud far more simple. ?t. They do nt>t overwork thoir brain as much ag industrious professional men do,. 5. They take their sleep, commonly, during tho hours.ut. duikut'ss^iiud. do.nut try to turn night into da)'. .0. They uro not So ambitions, aud not wear themselves out so rapidly in the fierce contest of rivalry. 7- Their pleasures are simple and less ex haubtiug. ? :: Kuit Sale?A. Good Hit.?The "Grand Army''? orguuumiion at Eva'nsville, Indiana, having beett?*bmten ont ?>f all countenance at the recent election, the Cmirirr of that place winds up tho concern by advertising its effects for sale in the following terms: Two thousand army blankets, (of best black cambric"). Two thousand knapsacks. Two thousand paper bells. Two thousand pasteboard cartridge boxes. Two thousand t in lilies (extra bead ). Two thousand pairs of pants (won. tided in the seat). Two thousand coals (buttons all over 'em). Two thousand pairs of shoes (solcless from "tramp, <ramp, tramp," about the streets). Two thousand copies of "We'll hang Jeff. Davis tin a Sour Apple tree, iV.e." 'Two thousand "Down with tho Traitors, I'n with the Stars" (very cheap), and other paraphernalia belonging to the effects of the late ltuyal Grand Army of the Republic. "AIother," said a little fellow, tho other night, "is there, any harm in breaking egg shells V ??Certainly not, my dear; but why , do you asK . "Causu J. dropped jjiubusket just now, and bcc whnt-a mess I'm in with the yolklff" A tcrrihie avalancho of rocks recently oc curred' near the Notch House, on Mount Mansfield, White Mountains. Ono rock weigh ing more than one hundred tons fell, crashing its way over and through the forest a thousand icei of more,cutting the trees off'like pipestems, fill lb finally hedged within ten rods of the House! Dur?ht, Wisconsin, i? called the onion city Texas is again plagued with grasshoppers. Velvet coats aro coming into faBhioo. Kentucky has raised a' 't'wenty-o>e M*B# ?....-... (.?.... '. ' .'. .??^??nrroO ?Cct- . .?thefl Gold and silver only are current at BaWrop, Texas. . .? i \f.' ? -w*?tk . ... i ?.: . u,,m Prentice is writing love songs to be MA to music. ' 1 ?; Mehr?-* . /.Olli?) Some weather-wise people predict a h^rd winter.. Kansas Las discovered a petrified crocodile 12G feet long.. .*?7 .. . - . .. ?? n ? f ' A Swedish Professor makes brandy out of rchidccr moss. ... . ? i . .Al^lO'rU Ten Brocck has been largely importing more racing stock. . Eight New York Theatres made 8125,844 during last August. Her Madagascarian Majesty ha? suppressed idol worship. . tt * i ' '10" li BT'Ii Victor IIugo is very melanoholy since too death of his wife, T . ri. Grau has introduced tho English half-price system at Now York. f< * iefj ? ' Chicago is boasting of the great eUcceaa of its evening schools. | ??? dii idouiutf x Minnesota/ wants another 890,000 bridge across the Mississippi. " ^ % Paris supports 300 female printer* end 3% female proof readers. 'l '? " I ] ! f ti i i ... V ! tci<* , The campaign artillery of the French army consists of l3:iUU caunon. r i ? . A snake's skeleton with 962 joipis, haf been dug up.iu Tennessee. :. ? i(. . ? f^j^j ! Persecution .of .the Jews is : again reported from Galatz, Moldavia. .ihr^ei'Vafc' H ijFroqch, protestenfe ?nu?bcr 1,2^0,000, ex clusiye of those in Algiers. Alderman ?? James Laurcnco is the elected Lord' Mayor-of London.] , ^Au Associated Press is being formed by tint English provincial papers, <.. ...,^{; . t Bui wer enjoys the reputition of being the homeliest man in Parliament. ?? '; t um>>'> IIonstoii. Tcxas, 'expeolfl^'to U"t0!* ^ railroad centre of flic South.1 "j ''" V ' 1 ? . r i nodi -. ? jw ? R na ^p?d nsviib It is said velocipedes have cut down the re ceipts of the Paris omnibuses.;, iM id New York is boasting of two Russian boble ' bleiben resident'Ihore't'rtt^^om? daea* >*% . "i ? n ? .'? ni In 1SGC there wer I Three mea freu the wrecked steamer J. C. Dealing have arrived at Quebec. ..,}ltlj Train'< nrc running 825 miles east of Sacra ment o on the Central Pacific Railroad. The Treasury Conscience Fund for the pas? five years amounts to $96,(192. A late Quarterly Review estimates the pop* illation of the world at 1,350,200,000. There aro three hundred and sixty riftt?eM) newspapers iu the United State*.' u u Tho. New York Union. League Clet? hae bought Jerome's private theatre. Napoleon wants a new National Hymo, bet France won't sing a hyuju to him* . I it is reported that.Scnor Oleosaga will be appointed Spanish minister to Francei i ;? i. v , i j ,.. ->, -r I y Fayettc county, Ky., boasts a calf with two perfectly formed feet on the Ramo leg, ' j. Tho Chicago Post says the " Vickedest Mau" iu that city is a newspaper man. - i A young lady recently Hogged a man who insulted her in a New York street car. The tailors of New York havo received an advance of ten per ccut, ou their wages. Fifty negro aud mulatto families are among t he wealthy "first oircles" of Paris, An old bachelor suggests that births beneb* lishcd under the head of "now music." i. ;. ? ???>; 1?T *JJr? OI? A \Vonion's Suffrage Convention is to be held at Boston about tho middle of November. ? ?: ? ' ' Ut, '. . . otiilVi .V-'i Counoiseurs say August Bclmont gives, the best dinuera iu New York. ^ A life of. President Johnson, it i* tald is be ing written by Mrs. Ann.S. Stephens. Fifty dollars was paid for a single seat el the Kellogg eoncort in NoW York. Beechcr persuaded 81000 out of his congre gation for the African Church South, last Sunday week. 15 rax ton Bragg was in Cincinnati recently inspecting the water works, with e view to in troducing improvements in those of Ne# Of* loans, Over which ho presides^ In 1SGG there were 1,890 deaths from aha&e bite in Madras Presidency, ? , . Um." ?? ?; Ad m -j; tngmd